earful

The word “earful” has 2 syllables: ear-ful

It's pronounced as /ˈɪərfʊl/


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In the thesaurus, “earful” has 266 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for earful along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for earful

  • account
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • adumbration
  • advice
  • affliction
  • ammo
  • announcement
  • apocalypse
  • argument
  • avalanche
  • babble
  • back-fence talk
  • barrage
  • bawling-out
  • berating
  • betrayal
  • blame
  • blather
  • blether
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • blow-by-blow
  • bombardment
  • break
  • breeze
  • broadcasting
  • broadside
  • bruit
  • bulletin
  • burst
  • buzz
  • calumny
  • canard
  • cannonade
  • cannonball
  • castigation
  • cataclysm
  • cataract
  • censure
  • chapter and verse
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chewing-out
  • chiding
  • chitchat
  • chronicle
  • clothesline
  • clue
  • colloquy
  • comeuppance
  • comment
  • communication
  • conclave
  • condemnation
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence
  • consultation
  • conversation
  • correction
  • counsel
  • cry
  • cue
  • current
  • data
  • defamation
  • deliberation
  • deluge
  • dialogue
  • directive
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • dirty wash
  • disapproval
  • discharge
  • discovery
  • dispatch
  • display
  • divination
  • divulgement
  • dope
  • dossier
  • dressing-down
  • drumbeat
  • drumfire
  • encounter
  • engulfment
  • enlightenment
  • epiphany
  • epistle
  • erudition
  • excess
  • exhibition
  • exposition
  • expostulation
  • exposure
  • eye-opener
  • eyeball-to-eyeball
  • fabrication
  • falsehood
  • fame
  • fiction
  • flash
  • flood
  • flood tide
  • flurry
  • flush
  • foreshadowing
  • fusillade
  • glut
  • going-over
  • gossip
  • gossipry
  • grapevine
  • gush
  • hail
  • hard time
  • hash
  • hearsay
  • hoax
  • huddle
  • idle talk
  • illumination
  • info
  • information
  • injury
  • innuendo
  • inside story
  • inspiration
  • instruction
  • intelligence
  • interlocution
  • interview
  • intimation
  • inundation
  • invention
  • kick in the teeth
  • knowledge
  • leak
  • learning
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • letter
  • lie
  • lightning bolt
  • lore
  • lowdown
  • malicious talk
  • manifestation
  • material
  • meddling
  • meeting
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • message
  • missive
  • murmur
  • negotiation
  • network
  • news
  • note
  • notice
  • notification
  • notoriety
  • objurgation
  • oracle
  • orientation
  • ostracism
  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • palaver
  • paper
  • parlance
  • parley
  • prate
  • prating
  • prattle
  • proclamation
  • propaganda
  • prophecy
  • publication
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rash
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • report
  • reprehension
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • repulse
  • repute
  • river
  • row
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • salvo
  • scandal
  • science
  • scolding
  • scoop
  • score
  • scuttlebutt
  • seminar
  • shower
  • showing
  • sign
  • slander
  • slap in the face
  • small talk
  • snub
  • spate
  • speech
  • spiel
  • storm
  • story
  • straight talk
  • stream
  • suggestion
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • supposition
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • symposium
  • tale
  • talk
  • talking-to
  • tattle
  • telling-off
  • the latest
  • tide
  • tidings
  • tip
  • tittle-tattle
  • tongue-lashing
  • torrent
  • uncovering
  • unearthing
  • unveiling
  • upbraiding
  • ventilation
  • vision
  • visit
  • volley
  • whisper
  • whispering
  • whispering campaign
  • whole story
  • wire
  • wisdom
  • word

Antonyms for earful

  • approval
  • commendation
  • compliment
  • concealment
  • cover
  • dribble
  • drip
  • encouragement
  • endorsement
  • evidence
  • exoneration
  • fact
  • flattery
  • heedlessness
  • hiding
  • ignorance
  • listening
  • neglect
  • praise
  • proof
  • quiet
  • sanction
  • secret
  • silence
  • trickle
  • truth

Meanings of earful

  • noun
    1. An angry reprimand, castigation or telling off.
    2. Intimate gossip.

Example Sentences

  • After the mishap, he received an earful from his disappointed supervisor.
  • The teenager got an earful from their parents for coming home late.
  • During the meeting, the manager gave the team an earful about the project's delays.
  • The employee received an earful from the client for the service shortcomings.
  • The teacher gave the chatty students an earful about the importance of focus in class.

On this page you'll find 292 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to earful, such as: account, admonishment, admonition, adumbration, advice, affliction, ammo.

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Related Words

objurgation

  • accusation
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affliction
  • animadversion
  • arraignment
  • attack
  • attribution
  • bawling-out
  • belittlement
  • berating
  • blame
  • business
  • castigation
  • censure
  • charge
  • chastisement
  • chewing-out
  • chiding
  • comeuppance
  • commination
  • complaint
  • condemnation
  • correction
  • criticism
  • damnation
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • devil
  • diatribe
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disfavor
  • disparagement
  • dressing-down
  • earful
  • excoriation
  • expostulation
  • exprobation
  • going-over
  • hard time
  • impeachment
  • implication
  • imputation
  • incrimination
  • inculpation
  • indictment
  • invective
  • kick in the teeth
  • lash
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • obloquy
  • opposition
  • ostracism
  • pan
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • rebuke
  • recrimination
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • reprehension
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprobation
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • repudiation
  • repulse
  • riot act
  • row
  • scolding
  • slap in the face
  • slur
  • snub
  • stricture
  • talking-to
  • telling-off
  • tirade
  • tongue-lashing
  • upbraiding

hail

  • acclaim
  • accost
  • accredit
  • acknowledge
  • address
  • adulate
  • applaud
  • approve
  • ask
  • assemble
  • avalanche
  • ballyhoo
  • barrage
  • batter
  • be a native of
  • be born in
  • beat down upon
  • beckon
  • begin
  • belaud
  • bid
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • bombard
  • bombardment
  • bravo
  • broadside
  • burst
  • buzz
  • call
  • call out
  • call up
  • cannonade
  • cataclysm
  • cataract
  • celebrate
  • cheer
  • cite
  • claim as birthplace
  • clap
  • command
  • commend
  • compliment
  • convene
  • convoke
  • crack up
  • current
  • deify
  • deluge
  • demand
  • discharge
  • distance
  • drumbeat
  • drumfire
  • earful
  • earshot
  • emblazon
  • endorse
  • engulfment
  • eruption
  • eulogize
  • exalt
  • excess
  • extol
  • extoll
  • favor
  • flag
  • flag down
  • flatter
  • flood
  • flood tide
  • flurry
  • flush
  • fusillade
  • glorify
  • glut
  • greet
  • gush
  • hailstorm
  • hear it for
  • hearing
  • hello
  • holler
  • idolize
  • indorse
  • inundation
  • invite
  • invoke
  • knell
  • kudize
  • laud
  • magnify
  • muster
  • order
  • outbreak
  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • overpraise
  • oversupply
  • page
  • pelt
  • pelting
  • praise
  • rain
  • rash
  • recognize
  • recommend
  • request
  • requisition
  • ring
  • river
  • root for
  • rush
  • salute
  • salvo
  • send for
  • shoulder
  • shout
  • shower
  • sight
  • signal
  • sing
  • sing out
  • sound
  • spate
  • speak to
  • storm
  • stream
  • subpoena
  • summon
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • support
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • tide
  • torrent
  • tout
  • volley
  • volume
  • wave down
  • welcome
  • whistle
  • whistle down
  • whistle for
  • yawp
  • yoo-hoo

salvo

  • avalanche
  • barrage
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • bombardment
  • broadside
  • burst
  • cannonade
  • cataclysm
  • cataract
  • current
  • deluge
  • discharge
  • drumbeat
  • drumfire
  • earful
  • engulfment
  • excess
  • flood
  • flood tide
  • flurry
  • flush
  • fusillade
  • glut
  • gunfire
  • gush
  • hail
  • inundation
  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • rash
  • river
  • shower
  • spate
  • storm
  • stream
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • tide
  • torrent
  • volley

talebearing

  • account
  • articulate
  • babble
  • back-fence talk
  • blabby
  • blather
  • blether
  • buzz
  • calumny
  • canard
  • chatter
  • chatty
  • chitchat
  • chronicle
  • clothesline
  • communicative
  • conversation
  • conversational
  • cry
  • defamation
  • demonstrative
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • dirty wash
  • dishing
  • earful
  • effusive
  • expansive
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • fable
  • fabrication
  • fairy tale
  • falsehood
  • falsity
  • fib
  • fluent
  • free-spoken
  • gabby
  • garrulous
  • glib
  • gossip
  • gossipry
  • gossipy
  • grapevine
  • gregarious
  • gushing
  • hearsay
  • idle talk
  • injury
  • libel
  • lie
  • long-winded
  • loquacious
  • malicious talk
  • meddling
  • mendacity
  • motormouthed
  • mouthy
  • news
  • outgoing
  • outspoken
  • prate
  • prattle
  • prattling
  • prevarication
  • prolix
  • rambling
  • repeating
  • report
  • rumor
  • scandal
  • scuttlebutt
  • slander
  • small talk
  • sociable
  • story
  • tale
  • tale-telling
  • taletelling
  • talk
  • talkative
  • talky
  • tattle
  • tattling
  • tittle-tattle
  • unreserved
  • untruth
  • verbose
  • vocal
  • voluble
  • well-spoken
  • whisper
  • whispering campaign
  • whopper
  • windy
  • wire
  • word
  • wordy

talk

  • accost
  • address
  • advertise
  • affirm
  • air
  • allege
  • allocution
  • allusion
  • announce
  • argot
  • argue
  • argument
  • argumentation
  • argy-bargy
  • articulate
  • assert
  • aver
  • avouch
  • avow
  • babble
  • back-and-forth
  • backchat
  • backstab
  • badinage
  • banter
  • bargaining
  • be in contact
  • betray
  • blab
  • blabber
  • blather
  • blaze
  • blow smoke
  • blurt
  • bolt
  • bombast
  • breathe
  • bring out
  • broach
  • broadcast
  • bull session
  • bunk
  • buzz
  • cackle
  • cant
  • canvass
  • carry on conversation
  • causerie
  • chaffer
  • chalk talk
  • chant
  • chat
  • chat room
  • chatter
  • chew
  • chew the fat
  • chew the rag
  • chin
  • chin music
  • chin-wag
  • chirp
  • chitchat
  • circulate
  • clothe
  • collogue
  • colloquy
  • comment
  • comment on
  • commune
  • communicate
  • conclave
  • confab
  • confabulate
  • confabulation
  • confer
  • conference
  • confess
  • confide
  • consult
  • consultancy
  • consultation
  • contact
  • conversation
  • converse
  • couch
  • council
  • counsel
  • cross
  • crosstalk
  • cry
  • debate
  • declaim
  • declamation
  • declare
  • deliberate
  • deliberation
  • deliver a speech
  • descant
  • describe
  • dialect
  • dialog
  • dialogue
  • diatribe
  • dirt
  • disclose
  • discourse
  • discuss
  • discussion
  • dish
  • disinformation
  • disquisition
  • dissert
  • dissertation
  • divulge
  • double-cross
  • drawl
  • drone
  • earful
  • encounter
  • engage in conversation
  • enunciate
  • epilogue
  • eulogy
  • exchange
  • exhortation
  • expatiate
  • expatiation
  • expound
  • express
  • eyeball-to-eyeball
  • filibuster
  • fink
  • formulate
  • formulize
  • forum
  • gab
  • gabble
  • gabfest
  • gas
  • gasp
  • get off
  • give
  • give a talk
  • give away
  • give speech
  • give voice to
  • give-and-take
  • go into a huddle
  • gossip
  • grapevine
  • groupthink
  • happy talk
  • harangue
  • have a meet
  • hearsay
  • hint
  • hold discussion
  • hold forth
  • homily
  • hot air
  • huddle
  • idle talk
  • imply
  • induce
  • influence
  • inform
  • innuendo
  • insinuate
  • insinuation
  • interact
  • interface
  • interlocution
  • interview
  • intimate
  • intimation
  • intone
  • jabber
  • jangle
  • jargon
  • jaw
  • jive
  • join in conversation
  • keep in touch
  • keynote address
  • keynote speech
  • kibbitz
  • kibitz
  • lecture
  • let on
  • lingo
  • lip
  • locution
  • look
  • meeting
  • monolog
  • monologue
  • mouth
  • murmur
  • natter
  • negotiate
  • negotiation
  • network
  • noise
  • nonsense
  • notify
  • orate
  • oration
  • palaver
  • panegyric
  • parlance
  • parley
  • pass
  • patois
  • patter
  • peroration
  • persiflage
  • persuade
  • phrase
  • pitch
  • pontificate
  • post
  • pourparler
  • prate
  • prattle
  • prelect
  • prelection
  • presentation
  • proclaim
  • promulgate
  • pronounce
  • propaganda
  • prose
  • publicize
  • publish
  • purr
  • put
  • put into words
  • racket
  • raillery
  • rant
  • rap
  • rattle
  • reach out
  • reason
  • recitation
  • recite
  • relate
  • remark
  • report
  • reveal
  • rhapsodize
  • rot
  • roundtable
  • rubbish
  • rumble
  • rumbling
  • rumor
  • run on
  • salutatory
  • say
  • scandal
  • schmooze
  • screed
  • scuttlebutt
  • seminar
  • sermon
  • sermonize
  • share
  • shmooze
  • shoot
  • shoot the breeze
  • shout
  • sing
  • skull practice
  • skull session
  • slang
  • small talk
  • snarl
  • snitch
  • soliloquize
  • soliloquy
  • sound
  • speak
  • speaking
  • speech
  • spiel
  • spill
  • spill the beans
  • splutter
  • spout
  • squeak
  • squeal
  • state
  • straight talk
  • stump
  • suggest
  • sway
  • symposium
  • table talk
  • take the floor
  • tale
  • talk a blue streak
  • talkathon
  • tattle
  • tell
  • tell all
  • thrash out
  • tirade
  • touch
  • touch base
  • trash
  • tribute
  • turn in
  • twitter
  • two-time
  • urban legend
  • urban myth
  • utter
  • utterance
  • vent
  • ventilate
  • ventilation
  • ventriloquize
  • verbalization
  • verbalize
  • visit
  • vocalization
  • vocalize
  • voice
  • wag
  • whisper
  • whispering
  • word
  • words
  • yack
  • yak
  • yammer
  • yap
  • yarn

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